Salem’s comprehensive plan will soon get overhauled for the first time since its creation in the 1970s, but the work is already off to a rocky start. The comprehensive plan guides everything from where homes can be built to how parks are managed. It has been updated in piecemeal over[Read More…]

Salem City Hall pictured over the summer. Salem City Council on Monday appointed a 14-person task force to look at the ways the city currently makes money and how it might make more. (File/Salem Reporter) While the private sector enjoys one of the longest economic expansions in history, Salem’s general[Read More…]

The Marion Street Bridge in early September. A task force has since February worked on ideas to cut traffic congestion around the bridges and will soon present ideas to Salem City Council. (Moriah Ratner/Special to Salem Reporter) Travel times over Salem’s downtown bridges could be cut down with a series[Read More…]

The city of Salem’s initial response to cyanotoxins breaching the water supply this summer caused a frenzy, an independent report found. The 34-page report, conducted by Ohio-based Novak Consulting Group, found that the city focused too much on sensational messaging and not enough on getting clean water to residents. However,[Read More…]

The city of Salem lost a case in the Oregon Court of Appeals last week that could have broader implications on the disclosure of arrest records. The appellate court last Thursday overturned a Marion County Circuit Circuit ruling that supported the city when it withheld from the public the arrest[Read More…]

A task force on Friday will wrap up its work on Salem traffic congestion that could be one more step away from the long-discussed third bridge in downtown Salem. (Special to Salem Reporter/Benjamin Brink) While many in the state play armchair planner with the Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and[Read More…]